Fans of Alice in Wonderland may get a kick out of this. In a way, it remains me of Wicked, but this series the characters and world are of Alice. This is not a retelling of the book and is not like Wicked where the focus is not full of the happenings in those of Wonderland. Where Wicked shows the backstory and future interactions of people after Dorothy.
This is more of a modern take on Alice and her life when she has gotten back from Wonderland a few months back. And has promised not to bring Wonderland up again. We follow Alice Liddell going to Lucena Academy in grade seven. It is the same school where her sister went, and was supposed to go again, but was told went to London. Neither sister got to say goodbye to each other. She meets Evan Case when she enters, her roommate Adrianna and Miss Amanda the advisor for the floor.
Eventually, she meets the Cheshire Cat in human form and makes continuing appearances in her life there. The reason he is there, according to him is that Wonderland has changed. She later enters Wonderland, to find the Hatter and Doormouse and finds that the Hare has not been there for several months. Alice is told the Queen is now taking hearts instead of heads. Making her way through Wonderland Alice is taken by the Red Knight to have her heart taken. While in the cell she finds the White King is there as well, yet she soon gets out and finds Hare in the kitchen. More events happen after this and eventually gets pushed into a mirror and is back at the academy. The people she has come close to have a feeling of the book she has and the interactions she has had with Cat is something more, she does end up telling Adrianna and Cat wants to read the book.
This is where the book itself relatively ends, there are other books to continue on what has been started. In the book other than at the beginning we are not given anymore about her sister. So that would be tackled in the next or future books of the saga. The ending kind of pushes you to want to know what will happen to Alice, the Cat and about her sister.
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